AI can reconstruct a picture of your face into these weird and wonderful 3D images

Tech's talk of the town is all about the iPhone X facial recognition feature that can scans your face and create the already infamous "animojis." 

But what if you don't have $999 to invest in the next-generation smartphone but still want to play with the 3D faces? 

AI experts from the University of Nottingham and Kingston University now let you make a plausible re-creation of your face using just a selfie or a picture of yourself. 

Try it yourself here, in the online demo of their paper entitled "Large Pose 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image via Direct Volumetric CNN Regression." Read more...